Word: intact
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...government to take a more active role in promoting marriage. Horn believes that sustaining marriages is moral and cost efficient. Nearly three-fourths of children in single-parent families will experience poverty by age 11, vs. about one-fifth of children in two-parent families. Children from intact families are less likely to give birth out of wedlock or get in trouble with the law--both of which end up costing the government a bundle...
...studying brain-damaged patients can teach scientists only so much. They would also like to know how anxiety works in normal, intact brains. For this, brain scans have proved invaluable...
Intellectual isolation among schools is a problem today, but the expansion into Allston threatens to exacerbate it. The administration has hinted that entire graduate schools will be relocated across the river, and logistically, moving schools intact makes the most sense. Professors and students within a graduate school share intellectual interests and resources in order to pursue common goals, and it makes little sense to force students to take a bus to get from one class to another. In addition, concentrating graduate school campuses in one area would foster community among graduate students, improving both their quality of life...
...Russia, is the gravest threat to U.S. security, it was his Administration that thwarted Russia's desire for both sides to destroy the nuclear warheads that are to be taken off alert under the new accord. As long as the U.S. insists on keeping some of those weapons intact to face future threats, Russia is likely to follow suit. That means even more nuclear weapons--retired but still potent--will be crammed into the more than 300 buildings in Russia now holding the Holy Grail of terrorists: atomic warheads or the fissile material critical to building them. "Our greatest danger...
...have a moral obligation to be good stewards of the earth, a moral responsibility to our children to inherit an intact globe,” Ford said in explaining why he chose to advocate for environmental causes...